Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

There is already 3 weekends of disruption with Coachella and Stagecoach. I can't see locals accepting a month of that and I don't see Stagecoach getting axed.

Plus artists sweeping back to Southern California for 3 weekends would be tough. I'd be very surprised if it went to three straight weekends, but wouldn't be surprised if they decided to do a festival in fall.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

Originally Posted by tigermilkboy

There is already 3 weekends of disruption with Coachella and Stagecoach. I can't see locals accepting a month of that and I don't see Stagecoach getting axed.

Plus artists sweeping back to Southern California for 3 weekends would be tough. I'd be very surprised if it went to three straight weekends, but wouldn't be surprised if they decided to do a festival in fall.

THey could do a "Reading/Leeds" where it's 2 festival sites running the same weekend that have the same lineup performing on different days.

I was under the impression somewhere in the neighbourhood of 65K W1 passes were sold in June, leaving only 10k to sell in This week. W2 passes were probably at least 40k but that's more of a guess.

When GV report the ticket gross to Billboard magazine they only count the core ticket price for general passes and VIP, not the shuttle passes. They did just less than $25mil for one weekend just on tickets for 2011, so it'll be $50mil in 2012.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

Great Park is a bunch of runways. That would suck. Anyone go to the warped tour back in the day in Anaheim? it was in the parking lot of honda center and SUCKED. The heat off the concrete was EVIL.

Coachella founder to produce Great Park music festivals
By BRIAN MARTINEZ
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

IRVINE – Orange County Great Park directors chose Goldenvoice LLC – founder of Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival – to be the park’s exclusive producer and promoter of large-scale and multiday music events.

The five other bidders for the five-year agreement included Live Nation, which is the promoter for Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, and C3 Presents, which handles Lollapalooza. The winner was determined by a point-system ranking.

Live Nation wanted exclusive rights for all events with a paid attendance over 2,500. Goldenvoice set that threshold at 12,500 people and demonstrated more experience with outdoor events and multiday festivals, Great Park officials said.

Although the final agreement has yet to be finalized, the plan is that Goldenvoice will pay the Great Park a flat fee of $750,000 per year as well as $3 per person for paid attendance between 150,000 and 299,000 per year and $5 per person for paid attendance between 300,000 and 500,000 per year.

Goldenvoice has agreed to produce one to five events per year and to contribute toward mutually beneficial improvements, such as landscaping, according to the Great Park report.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

"There were enough buyers in queue online that we probably could have added two more Coachella weekends and another Stagecoach weekend," said Randy Phillips, president of AEG Live, the concert promotion giant that works in conjunction with Goldenvoice to put Coachella and its country cousin, Stagecoach, on each year in Indio.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

I think instead of pissing more Indio residents off, having an entirely new Festival/Location is the option they are going with. My friends Dad's Real Estate company works with the Great Park in Irvine and said Golden Voice has exclusivity for the entirety of September and October this year, and are in the deciding phase of the exact dates they will be holding their new multi-day music festival there.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

If Coachella is anymore than 2 weekends in a row, it'll just lose its novelty. It already lost some going from 1 weekend to 2. And hell no, a festival in Irvine? That'll be ultra-whack! Irvine is the most master planned place I know of: good place to raise a family but horrible place for fun adult activities like concerts.

Re: Coachella to be 3 weekends in 2013

Originally Posted by Neighborhood Creep

AND FRIDAY AND SATURDAY GO UNTIL SUNRISE!!!!!!!!!

We could all hope for this, but a few stuffed shirt golf pro's I sat next to on the plane ride home in 2010 noticed my wristband and said they could hear most of the performances from their $1500 a night resort hotel in La Quinta and they didn't sound the slightest bit happy when telling me that... And unless the surrounding area is willing to tell the deep pocketed golf douches to stay away, I see a PERMANENT 01:00 noise curfew.